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Yale Athletic Director Clarence W. Mendell has announced Yale's varsity football schedule for 1956, the start of the round-robin competition involving the Ivy Group colleges...
...emphasizing the fundamentals of amateur athletics, the Ivy League formally agreed yesterday that its eight member colleges would play a round-robin football schedule, and asserted that the principles of round-robin scheduling would be extended to as many sports as "practicable." The football league will probably start...
...addition to expanding the principles of round-robin competition, the new league affirmed its ban on spring football practice and athletic scholarship, thereby substantially keeping intact an informal president's pact drawn up in 1945 to prevent commercialization in Ivy college athletics...
...round-robin football season will probably not begin until 1956, since plans for 1954 and, for the most part, for 1955 have already been drawn up. A new section of the agreement specifies that schedules in sports other than football shall not be made prior to December of the proceeding academic year...
...title. Said Hoad: "I've had tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference championship. ¶ In Melbourne, Australian Trackman John Landy, whose 4:02.1 mile is the third fastest on record, set an Australian two-mile mark of 8:58.2. ¶ In Rio de Janeiro, Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia's triple Olympic winner, running over a soggy...